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As for the plot, it is contained in the following six words of Suetonius: 'Titus reginam Berenicem dimissit invitus invitam. It seems extraordinary that with such materials Racine should have ventured to set out to write a tragedy: it is more extraordinary still that he succeeded.
Medea in Ovid speaks thus: Frustra, Medea, repugnas, Nescio quid Deus obstat, ait. And a little later Ovid makes her add: Sed trahit invitam nova vis, aliudque Cupido, Mens aliud suadet; video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor.
"You must put a scroll in her mouth, else people will not understand that. You can't tell that in a picture." "It will make them feel their ignorance then an excellent æsthetic effect. The fourth is, Titus sending Berenice away from Rome after she has shared his palace for ten years both reluctant, both sad invitus invitam, as Suetonius hath it. I've found a model for the Roman brute."
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